Sentences with phrase «dusty old place»

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Based on a plan drawn up free of charge by a Seattle architecture firm, the new zoo maintains the intimacy of the old zoo — a rustic place with dusty paths, teetering structures and the occasional mango tree in bloom — while enabling people to see animals in their natural habitats: paca in river forest, pumas in pineland, jaguarundi at the forest edge.

So this little trip came courtesy of some friends of ours who owned a villa and a car over there... we fixed up a time to go out of the main holiday / tourist season, happily hopped over, hung out at the villa, drove the car around the island, hello lovely old historic main town and spent our days on the beach in the sunshine... the place we were staying was perched into the pine clad hills that swept down dusty roads to a beautiful beach with the bluest water that only the Med can give.